This issue occurs because of a race condition. This race condition occurs when the Sysprep command tries to stop the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service and the VMware tool ...

I had to replaced my old motherboard with one that uses a different chipset. As expected, I now experience a BSOD loop. According to this guide Sysprep can be used to prepare a machine for migration ...

If things do go wrong with your Windows 10 template, here's how to fix it (most of the time). In the first part of this article series, I explained that I initially had trouble getting Virtual Machine ...

As an IT professional or support agent, you may encounter Sysprep failure while you are creating a Windows reference PC/image or removing some of the side-loaded Appx ...

I'm building a new image set based on XP SP2. When we deploy images to our 51 schools we config the "Organization" line of the sysprep.inf file as the school's accounting number. For testing purposes, ...

The conventional wisdom is that third-party tools leave duplicate SIDs across PCs that create serious security holes. The conventional wisdom is wrong Anyone in IT who sets up computers knows Sysprep, ...

Although I am probably best known for the blog posts and articles that I write, I tend to write a few books and produce a few video training courses each year. As you can imagine, these projects ...